"A young man may judge it absolutely necessary for him to marry. And
yet, altho convinced of this necessity, he is groping in the dark. Now he is
fully determined, and to-morrow he is not. Now he wants this woman, and
the next day another. But as soon as he meets a person whom he considers
adapted to him in every respect, he is fully resolved. This fitness is the arrow
that penetrates his soul, and that causes the scale of his unsettled affections
to turn in favor of the congenial object. Hence nothing can draw him away
from her so long as he considers her adapted to himself; if need be he will
work for her as a slave twice seven years which time will seem to him but as
so many days by reason of the hope to call her his own in the end.
XLI. Testimonies